Mom laughs at teen son for not coming out yet and then wonders why he’s upset
AITA” subreddit on Reddit to explain her family drama.She explained that it’s obvious to her husband and herself that their son is gay.
Rather than drop hints that they’d not have a problem with this, she chose to challenge the young man more directly.“My son (17m) has apparently been in the closet for the past seven months.
So, my son is fairly masculine/straight acting if that makes sense, however, he’s very obviously had a boyfriend (18m) for the past seven months,” she said.“He sometimes baby talks to this boy, hugs him all the time, has called him handsome, share clothes, sits away too close to each other to the point where they’re basically cuddling, he closes his bedroom door when with him but not any other friends, sees him like every day, buys him gifts, and for the past 7 months he now always smells great, has his hair fixed really nice, and dresses nicer, among other things,” she continued.Related: NeNe Leakes responds to son’s surprise “coming out” on TikTokThe mom went on to explain that she asked her son if was going to “invite his boyfriend on our trip, and he got awkward and said ‘that’s not funny’, I asked what he meant and he said ‘I’m straight, that’s not funny.’”“I laughed and when I realized he was serious I started laughing even harder.”“I told him he was very obviously in a relationship with a guy and did a terrible job at hiding it, he got emotional and started asking me not to tell his dad (my husband already knows, like I said it was obvious).
Then he got upset saying outed him when he wasn’t ready, he hasn’t said a word to me in a couple days.”She wanted to know if her approach had been wrong.The dilemma prompted almost 4,000 comments.
